{"product_id":"issue-7","title":"Issue 07","description":"\u003cp\u003eOld things look different when you know what you are looking for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIssue 07 follows white tea back to its origins in China — a category that asks for patience and rewards it. Sarah Besky joins us to ask what quality actually means in tea, and why the word has been stretched past usefulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe go looking for where speciality tea culture first took root in Central Europe, and find a story more recent and more contingent than the mythology suggests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEarl Grey has an origin story. Most of it is invention. We look at what the evidence actually supports.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd we look at the economics behind the cheapest tea on the shelf — who picks it, under what conditions, and at what cost. The price of a teabag is not the whole price.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Iran to Japan to Oregon: Sichuanese kettles, something singular made in the Pacific Northwest, and the gap between tea marketing and tea reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eighty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54019632824660,"sku":"IS7","price":27.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1019\/8555\/0676\/files\/cover_7.jpg?v=1774824840","url":"https:\/\/readeighty.com\/products\/issue-7","provider":"Eighty","version":"1.0","type":"link"}